““Thank you very much, sir,” said Beth with nothing resembling actual gratitude.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Prologue “The Minder” section 5 (p. 10)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
Luke and Simon, pg. 28
The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
““Thank you very much, sir,” said Beth with nothing resembling actual gratitude.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
Prologue “The Minder” section 5 (p. 10)
The Republic of Thieves (2013)
Sam Manekshaw (1914–2008) First Field marshal of the Indian Army
His view on the military knowledge of politicians quoted in NRIs irked by poor Manekshaw farewell, 7 July 2008, 2 December 2013, Diligent Media Corporation Ltd. http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-nris-irked-by-poor-manekshaw-farewell-1176337,
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
Variant: If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
1940s, Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
Context: While religion prescribes brotherly love in the relations among the individuals and groups, the actual spectacle more resembles a battlefield than an orchestra. Everywhere, in economic as well as in political life, the guiding principle is one of ruthless striving for success at the expense of one's fellow men. This competitive spirit prevails even in school and, destroying all feelings of human fraternity and cooperation, conceives of achievement not as derived from the love for productive and thoughtful work, but as springing from personal ambition and fear of rejection.
There are pessimists who hold that such a state of affairs is necessarily inherent in human nature; it is those who propound such views that are the enemies of true religion, for they imply thereby that religious teachings are Utopian ideals and unsuited to afford guidance in human affairs. The study of the social patterns in certain so-called primitive cultures, however, seems to have made it sufficiently evident that such a defeatist view is wholly unwarranted.
Włodzimierz Ptak (1928–2019) immunologist
Bętkowska, Teresa (August–September 2010). "Mistrz niszowej dyscypliny" http://www2.almamater.uj.edu.pl/126/17.pdf (PDF). Alma Mater (in Polish). Kraków: Jagiellonian University (126–127): pp. 41–46.
Henryk Sienkiewicz book Quo Vadis
Letter of Petronius to Nero, Ch. 73
Quo Vadis (1895)
Context: Rome stuffs its ears when it hears thee; the world reviles thee. I can blush for thee no longer, and I have no wish to do so. The howls of Cerberus, though resembling thy music, will be less offensive to me, for I have never been the friend of Cerberus, and I need not be ashamed of his howling.
René Girard (1923–2015) French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science
Source: I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881–1938) Turkish army officer, revolutionary, and the first President of Turkey
Diary entry in Karlsbad on 6 July 1918, also quoted in Ataturk: Founder of Modern Turkey, a biographical documentary about Atatürk
“He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.”
P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author
Ukridge (1924)